If you studied journalism at university, you were likely given reading lists for your courses, charting the history of the press in your country, media law, and interesting case studies and analysis.
But have a look at these books, collated on MediaShift, that professional journalists found really helpful, but that were not on their reading lists as part of their training.
Some titles featured were "Writing tools" by Roy Peter Clark, and Stephen King’s "On Writing".
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